The Navy donated the U-boat to the museum, but the city of Chicago was tasked with raising $250,000 to move, install, and restore the submarine for exhibition. In 1954, the U-505 was towed from ...

Then, inch by inch, the submarine was hauled ashore. As the center of gravity of the U-boat shifted landward ... history Facebook group for more from Chicago’s past. Sign up to receive the ...

A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside the U-boat, now a permanent exhibit at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.

in Lake Michigan a few miles east of Chicago. Post-war, the U.S. Navy began applying lessons learned, from operations and from a study of the captured U-boats, toward new submarine designs.